I had a great time with you two - two of the happiest people I know Glad I could help with computer stuff and mahalo again for dinner, the tiki mug, your tiki room glass, and the volcano and bowl! WOW I am thrilled! I will shoot the firefall thing we talked about this weekend and post photos here.

I was most impressed with the row of ten (?) Sacramento Crawl mugs that you did - each in a different speckled glaze. Seeing all of them together was truely a magnificent thing of beauty! I'm bringing my camera next time and getting some good shots of that group.

lunavideogames also commissioned a mug for the new bride. She likes Buffy and the vampire slayers and he picked her two favorite characters. One he turned into a vampire hula girl and the other a vampire Moai. I added the bats on the back.

First off I glazed them in dark purple.

First I did all of the outside of the main body of the mug in purple with spots. I added the same to parts of her outfit and flower.

The Moai has blond hair like the man and brown hair for the woman has been added.

Rock color to the Moai and similar to the rocks they both stand on.

Looking this way

and that way.

Three layers of pale skin tone and a few decorations on the belt.

Straw color on the skirt

and the mug is done and set aside until firing.

lunavideogames gave me a challenge and once it's fired we'll know if I was able to do it.

hang10tiki you could be a moai because you are one of my rocks. I really appreciate all of you who write here often because it keeps me going.

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Lets see, I start my day without makeup and without doing my hair. There's only so much time and I've got tikis to make!
Well actually I was cleaning our closets and found this "hat" that I bought when I was 10 years old. I'm finally letting go of stuff...but not my 50 year old hat!

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I've finally gotten to the Tiki Bob Sacramento necklaces.

The first step was to paint all the backs black.

Next I made sure that the black glaze was inside the holes but not filling them.

Once they were all done I let them dry overnight.

The next day I painted all of the faces white with Concepts which will have a gloss even though it is an under-glaze.

All done these were left to dry overnight.

On the third day I used Concepts under-glaze to do the eyes and mouths.

I already owe hang10tiki one in this color as well as one for Loki Tiki. Or will this be green after it fires?
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